From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) Subject: Re: Linux - the future? Date: 8 Nov 1992 20:25:50 GMT
keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
>Who's "we" I could care less. I use EMACS. However the people I do
>work for. (LOT's of people) demand it. Techie types who've never been
>in an office where real work is being done tend to lose perspective. I
>don't mean niche work either. Visit 5 lawyers offices, and 5
>accountants office at random in your area, and see what they are using
>for Word Processing. Wanna take any wagers you won't find *ANY* that
>are using roff or Tex? (Yea, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'll
>make the bet with anyone willing to roll the dice with the yellow pages.)
I know of at least one law firm were they use GNU emacs and LaTeX.
With a proper setup it's an ideal environnement for enormous
amounts of standard business correspondence. The secretaries
with WordPerfect experience found WP much more complex.
No, they never need to program any Lisp macro's, but
they love the incremental regexp-search.